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Indeed that Qt-KDE "treaty" was an inspiration for the feature of copyleft-next that bkuhn lauds in this article.
Any additional reading on the Qt-KDE treaty that you would recommend?
Toward Copyleft Equality for All
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Re: Toward Copyleft Equality for All
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I am guessing that now the software can’t be included in something else that uses “predatory copyleft“. And those derivative works do not have the option to use a less restrictive license that allows such behavior. Not sure of this though.
Ah, good thinking. But is that true? Basically, the license is copyleft now, but if certain conditions occur in the future, it will become BSD-like (let's go with that designation for familiarity). Thus, the license is effectively (copyleft | BSD). A project which uses regular old predatory copyleft can therefore use it now and continue to use it, whichever way it plays out.
Confusing. I’ll be interested to see this explained to mortals.
But I would assume that derived works could not choose to use the code as BSD - it’s not “choice of copyleft or BSD” it’s “copyleft unless you try to do something shady.”
Somehow..?